This question shows that only Wormtail, after almost 14 years, decided to go and fish out Voldemort's wand from the wreckage
Is it hinted anywhere in the book why no one else ever tried to look for ...

I guess I should say SPOILER ALERT if you haven't seen Star Trek Generations or the reboot films.
In the movie Star Trek Generations, Captain Kirk and Captain Picard meet to defeat Soran. According ...

In Revenge of the Sith, according to the title crawl, Anakin and Obi-Wan "lead a
desperate mission to rescue the captive Chancellor." They do this by arriving in two one-man starfighters. Grievous' ...

When I was much younger, I started reading Robert Jordan's wheel of time series. I very much enjoyed the early books, but I gave up at a certain point because the books where getting longer while the ...

I hope someone can help track down this book from my teens. I remember borrowing it from a local library so some time in the mid-90's, although I can't be sure if it was new or old at the time.
The ...

We know that the Imperius curse works against non-human animals as well as humans, so it should work on transfigured humans. A werewolf could probably be considered a transfigured human so it should ...

At the end of the second movie Neo feels the sentinels and stops them just by his mind, then collapses.
At the beginning of the third movie he suddenly wakes up in the trainman's station
How did he ...

At the beginning of Star Wars: A New Hope, we see the Rebel Blockade Runner with Princess Leia and the Droids being pursued by a Star Destroyer above the planet Tatooine. Practically directly above ...

I missed out on playing the Resident Evil computer games, but enjoyed the films. What was the significance of the weapon amnesia Alice (1st film) discovers in her bedroom drawer?
Was it a nod to the ...

In the season one finale "Kobol's Last Gleaming", Starbuck jumps to Caprica to retrieve the Arrow of Apollo. In season two episode "The Farm", Roslin's faction jumps to Kobol and (separately) Starbuck ...

In P.C. Hodgell's Godstalk, Jame learns that an amoral character in the book, Bane, is her half brother. After kissing her (and biting her lip down to the muscles in the process), he shoves her into a ...

Voldemort didn't expect Draco to succeed, so perhaps he had just assigned Draco to the task and let him do whatever he wanted
So most probably he didn't know about the cursed necklace nor the poison ...

The Internet seems to be in disagreement: some reviewers of Frederik Pohl's Gateway blame Rob for pushing the button and killing the other nine people. Others say it was an accident (or should I call ...

I read The Long Walk, written by Stephen King under the pseudonym Richard Bachman (The Bachman books, I believe a collection of four stories in one volume? correct me if I'm wrong, it was over twenty ...

Mazer Rackham won the Second Invasion for humanity, and it's been said by some sources that he is half Māori. Is there any other information about Mazer Rackham's experiences and origins prior to his ...

Towards the end of Order of the Phoenix, after Umbridge has been carried away by the Centaurs, and when they have to get away from Umbridge's Inquisitorial Squad, Ginny overpowers Malfoy in Umbridge's ...

Prof. Lupin explains to Harry in the Shrieking Shack that he was looking at the map when they went to meet Hagrid before the execution of Buckbeak. Three people went in, but four came out. Why didn't ...

I read this book at school in the early 1990's. I seem to remember the title being "Summer of [blank]" "Spring of [blank]" etc.
It's centred on a village that has a stone circle. I vaguely remember ...

The map definitely shows people (humans) inside the castle
But I remember reading Harry watching Peeves bouncing around in the trophy room and Peeves is not human
And I don't remember if I had exactly ...

In Journey to the centre of the Tardis, we discover that the monsters roaming the Tardis are the characters who will later burn in the Eye of Harmony's chamber and leak back to the past.
The effects ...